Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
The Worst Advice You Will Ever Receive 4-16-25
Wed, 16 Apr 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker challenges the notion that you should surround yourself with the most “successful” people, arguing instead for choosing friends and colleagues who genuinely uplift and fulfill you.
Chapter 1: Who are Theresa and Nemo and why did they switch to Shopify?
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Chapter 2: How does Shopify improve the Nemo Boards shopping experience?
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Chapter 3: Who is Scott Becker and what is the focus of this episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is the worst advice you will ever receive. So there's a lot of candidates for this discussion, but I'll start with this one, this concept. There's all this business and personal advice or professional advice out there about the five people you hang out with the most.
Chapter 4: What is the common advice about the five people you hang out with?
And a lot of it from business preaching and business books goes like this. Pick the five closest people you're going to hang out with the most, because you're going to become more like them. And so you want to pick people that are successful, that are really skinny, that are really rich, that are really this, really that. And then you'll gravitate to be a lot like them. That's the advice.
Now, I think this is the worst advice ever. So we take the position, but I don't mean any offense to convicts. Aber assuming your friends aren't convicts, and I say that jokingly, pick your close colleagues based on who you have a natural comfort with, a natural affinity with, not who's the most prestigious, but who makes you feeling positive and upbeat.
It's almost like you have your family and you spend more time with certain family members because you feel more or less comfortable with them. It's the same concept here. Work with people that you have mutual interest with. Not people that are the richest, not people that are the coolest, not people that are the best handicapped, the best this, the best that.
But pick your friends, pick who you hang with, based on who fills your bucket. There's also a concept on this concept that says, don't water dead plants. And the concept here that I love as well is, Stop chasing the friend or the colleague or the business associate who doesn't reciprocate and doesn't show the equal interest in yourselves.
So constantly aim for, hang with people that make you feel good and vice versa. And hopefully you make them feel good as well. But don't pick them based on who's cool, who's this, who's that. Go with who makes you feel good. Whose bucket do you fill? Who fills your bucket? That's all we got today. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast.
And thank you to our producer, the best in the business, the Chanel Bunger. Thank you.
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